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Yuck! I just walked out the door and went down flat on my butt. It's raining and 32* and everything is a solid block of ice.

Yup all gone, a few patches on north facing hillsides on the way home from work but they'll be gone soon too. Hopefully we get a bit more from the opportunities coming up. I'd love to see us end with a foot or more.

Anyone have any snow left after today? I'm down to spots. Before it got dark the woods were still mostly covered but it has that late March look, you can tell it will be gone tomorrow.

Sure looks like it wants to snow out there now. I don't keep track but I'm a bit over 8" now for the season. When is the last time we got a foot or more in December? Feels like we have a chance to get there this year. I hope the winter continues like this, I just spent a ton of money on new tires for my Durango this afternoon

Yep. Where did the like button go?

1 more inch to add to the total. It's cold and it looks and feels like winter

Well yeah, everybody should have a mountain bike or three. It's good for ones soul. No snow here, just clouds

Nuthin' but rain here

Here's an interesting observation - Over the course of the day the soil temps have gone up 3-6 degrees according to the local mesonet stations. Since there's been a solid accumulation insulating the ground it's climbing about 1 degree every 3 hours. A couple of times over the last few years I've mentioned how I think ground temps affect the quality and durability of the early season snowpack and how important it is to be frozen to a significant depth before the pack starts to build. Now I can actually see it and confirm what I've been thinking for so long. Back to your regularly scheduled programming

That's more like a statement on the general state of society lately Well this certainly turned into an overperformer here. I've been under this very persistent band for the last few hours and it just keeps coming down. In fact for the last hour it's been rather heavy and accumulating nicely but the flakes are really small. 28*, wind is N/NW @ 5mph

About 2", still snowing nicely but the flakes are tiny now, temps are slowly dropping, streets are totally covered, looks like winter

Virga Virga Virga - What a storm

Here's one for the Thruway system http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/map/index.html?layer=cameras This is regional. Click the box on the menu on the right side next to cameras and it shows for all over the area, some in CT and NJ and a whole bunch in NY. https://www.511ny.org/ I don't know what's up with this but there used to be a bunch of links through this page https://www3.westchestergov.com/news/3959-use-the-county-traffic-cameras-to-plan-travel WU has the links for all of the Taconic cams here and actually all of the NYDOT cams. Some links work, some don't. You may want to try to save some of the links because it looks like next week they are removing the page forever. https://www.wunderground.com/webcams/nydot/547/show.html More http://data.lohud.com/embeds/NYCtrafficcam/

And a pretty good selection of highway cams along the Taconic and a few other major roads here on the east side of the river. Couch touring with a fresh cold beer is the best way to travel when the weather is uncooperative.

Looks like it's gonna be slickery out there this morning.

I was just looking at some of the local mesonet stations and the soil temps are still really high. With the warm rains coming later this week it's going to go even higher. Doesn't bode well for a long lasting snowpack if the cold shot coming does put down a reasonable amount of snow.

Hahaha

That 65 degree Xmas Eve a few years ago was wonderful. Mountain biking in shorts and t-shirts that night was something I'll never forget. There was a whole bunch of riders out hootin' and hollerin' and just having a big old time like it was mid summer. I wouldn't mind another one like that

A couple of chilly mornings lately to remind us that it is pretty much winter but the afternoons have been really nice. Things are starting to dry out again though but this time it needs to freeze up rather than rain. Amazing how so many trees held on their leaves through the hard freezes even though those leaves are dead. LBSF touched on it in another thread and said that a lot of the leaf stems didn't weaken enough to fall off and that we may see significant tree damage because of it. It seems like they may have a hard time leafing out in the spring because the new leaves won't be able to use those branches to grow from but I haven't researched it so don't quite know if that's what the reason is it just sort of made sense to me.

Very few of the old clubs were as successful much later than that either. At that point small shows had transitioned to theaters rather than clubs but there was still a strong bar band scene and very occasionally the bigger bands would show up for those bar shows.

I remember that well, my neighbor didn't stop raving about it for days afterwards. That was a year or so before I started going there because they didn't like my fake id I remember that too. I also remember some of the incredible shows the club in Island Park used to get when we first moved to O'side in 1970. Most of the really great stuff, The Doors, Grateful Dead was slightly before that but until ~73 that place killed it. She used to live in Rockville Center right at the edge of the RVC Country Club. Nice house

Oh man I saw some great stuff at Malibu. We used to walk in from the beach side and half the time never got asked for money. The Ramones and so many others... DSO is great. I used to see Jeff in small bars around LI over 30 years ago. 90.7 is still good but without Pete and Vin it's just not the same place it used to be.

I miss so many of the old dj's. Vin Scelsa recently retired and Pete Fornatale died of an aneurysm so they're both gone from the air but there are a couple still working from the late 60's and 70's on Sirius/XM. Cousin Brucie is still on Wednesday and Saturday nights on channel 6, the 60's channel, and I listen to Carol Miller, Meg Griffin, Dusty Street and Jim Ladd regularly and I think that Dennis Elsas is still on the air here in NY. There's really nobody like Scottso though.

Random flakes floating around

I'd think that most of Great South Bay is too shallow for critters that big especially at low tide. Haha I bet it's sketchy being in a small boat and these things that are triple your size are around.